extGUI4LMS - An Alternative Web Interface for the Logitech Media Server 14531
14530 Features - A desktop-like, responsive and intuitive user interface build with modern web technologies - Advanced playlist management - Custom search function - Statistics with pretty graphs Scope This is not, and is not meant to be, a complete replacement for the normal web interface. There are no settings, plugins, internet radio and other advanced functionality. The main focus is to show as much real-time information as possible at a glance, to enable quick and easy navigation through the music library, and to make managing the current playlist easier. Status It's mostly feature-complete, and fairly stable on my setup. Since it hasn't been tested anywhere else, I'd still consider it beta quality, though - I'm quite sure there are a number of bugs left. One known bug is that switching players seems not to work correctly. Planned Improvements - Performance tweaks, especially avoiding to reload the playlist from the server - Rating tracks - Moving tracks in the current playlist - Actually showing info in the Info area - "New music" search - Bugfixes, obviously Performance The app places a higher load on the server than the standard web interface, since it fetches a lot more information more frequently. It also needs more resources on the client site, due to the completely Javascript-based GUI. That being said, it seems to be fast enough even on fairly low-powered hardware (I tested it on an AMD E-450 powered netbook and it was ok). If your server is slow and your collection is large, you might run into performance issues, though. Prerequisites A modern web browser - Works well on Google Chrome/Chromium and Internet Explorer 9. I'd recommend Chrome/Chromium, though, since it seems to have better Javascript performance. - Broken on Firefox - Not tested with other browsers If you have a large music collection, your LMS server needs to provide adequate performance Installation Download the 3 attached zip files, rename LMSnewGUI.dist.z01.zip to LMSnewGUI.dist.z01 and LMSnewGUI.dist.z02.zip to LMSnewGUI.dist.z02 and unzip the LMSnewGUI.dist.zip file (I had to split it due to size limits in this forum - you'll need to use a zip program capable of processing split archives) Move the LMSnewGUI folder to the plugin folder of your LMS and restart the server (you can see where the LMS plugin folder is located by going to Settings/Information in the LMS web interface). You'll find an entry in the Extras menu, which is just a link (http://<yourlmsserver>/plugins/LMSnewGUI/html/app.html), so you could bookmark it - it doesn't have to be launched from the regular web interface. Usage Instructions See the built-in help (click on the ? icon at the top of the application) 14527 14528 14529 +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ |Filename: es2.jpg | |Download: http://forums.slimdevices.com/attachment.php?attachmentid=14531| +-------------------------------------------------------------------+ ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Roland0's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=56808 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=98186 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
